KINGSTON — Many of the people displaced by last week’s downtown fire have not yet returned to their homes.

On Wednesday morning, about 15 of them, mostly residents of the third floor of 46 Montreal St., moved out of the motel rooms they had been staying in and into the city’s shelter system.

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The move came a week after a fire and smoke damage rendered their apartments, which are housed above Suits Nightclub, unlivable. The Red Cross, and then the city, stepped in to pay for their housing.

Workers from Home Base Housing arrived shortly after 11 a.m. to transport the residents from the 7 Oakes Motel to Inn out of the Cold.

Tammy Ball and her partner, Paul Wensing, were the last residents to make it out of the building on their own, climbing down a fire escape, before t

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